Alice: Inside the Looking Glass
Lady Moon-Chan
Response to DamnBlackHeart's FOS fanfiction challenge. Alice Walker's pet cat Dinah accidentally starts a fire in the Walker home, leaving only Alice alive. A heavily burned and mentally scarred Alice is sent to the hospital, where she encounters the dark and twisted Wonderland and becomes a rallying-point for the rebels intent on defeating the evil Queen of Hearts. Eventual AlicexCheshire.
Prologue: In Which it Begins
Alice was on edge. She couldn't help it. She didn't even know why. Nothing was amiss. The props for the Halloween haunted house were in place, Dinah was confined to her carrier so she couldn't get at the candles or oil lamps, and her costume fit like a glove.
Her sister Rosemary told her not to worry. "Cocktails are ready at your fahvorite tahble in the cornair, Mademoiselle Walkair." And then she'd done her flawless impression of the waiter at the four seasons.
"I'm alright, Ro. Stop worrying." Alice snapped, adjusting the high, stiff collar of her vampiress costume.
"Alright, Al. I'll take your word for it." Rosemary said, smoothing out the tunic of her home-made ghoul costume. She grinned, showing off fanged dentures. "Well, it's show time. Let's get going."
Alice followed her sister down to the front door, firmly shutting the pessimistic feeling that something terrible was going to happen tonight out of her mind. It turned out to be the biggest mistake she'd ever made.
It was all over the papers for the next few weeks. The devastating fire at the four floor colonial revival the Walkers owned that had killed everyone inside but the youngest daughter, 19 year old Alice. How Alice had first and second degree burns over her back, shoulders, and legs, burns that would have been much more severe if the middle daughter Rosemary(23) who had shielded her sister from more serious harm at the cost of her own life. And how Alice was being sent to the hospital at Watertown, Mass., to heal her body as well as her heart.
But what the papers didn't know, what no one could possibly know, is that Alice would do more than just heal at Watertown. She would save a world from the tyranny of a dark and terrible queen, and find the love of her life.
AN: Well? How was it? Did you hate it? Like it? Think it was the creepiest piece of shiz you ever read? Let me know in a review! Peace out, yo!